Breaking the Silence: Telling Herstories of the Peruvian Post-Internal Armed Conflict

This article analyzes seven stories written by women after the 2003 release of the Final Report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), a report that shed light on human rights violations during the Internal Armed Conflict (1980–2000). These herstories address post-conflict trauma, recovery, and reconciliation, paying attention to Peru’s heterogeneity and resisting the attempt to silence people’s traumatic experiences from the national imagination. The authors stand in solidarity with survivors of the social sufferings caused by policies of extermination that targeted the most vulnerable sectors of the population, whose lives were considered expendable and were therefore left without the right to protection.